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Executive Coach and Blueprint founder, Debra Bednar-Clark is guiding people through turning points in their careers—instilling the clarity, confidence, and tools they need to plot bold moves and next chapters. Her practice is defined by one core belief: life is most interesting and fulfilling when we give ourselves permission to lead with our truest, fullest selves.…

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Community Is Everything 33:18

2 years ago33:18

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An accomplished CEO, entrepreneur and documentary film executive, Anne Devereux-Mills is the Founder of Parlay House, a global organization that gathers women both virtually and in person to spark authentic conversations and build meaningful, supportive relationships. Parlay House currently has over 10,000 participants that span countries, generations, races, sexual orientation, and more. Anne has been honored by a range of organizations including SHE-CAN, Advertising Women of New York, The All-Stars Foundation, Project Kesher and Worldwide Women.…

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The Fabric VC Fund: A Strategic Secret Weapon 41:51

3 years ago41:51

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Guest Laurel Mintz is the founder of both the award-winning Los-Angeles based marketing agency, Elevate My Brand, as well as Fabric Venture Capital, a firm whose ESG fund is on a mission to weave together diverse, underrepresented founders with the funding they deserve and the critical marketing strategy they need to ensure success. Laurel shares her founder journey, the strategic thinking behind her expansion, and key startup hacks that helped her bootstrap and grow.…

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Future of Outsourcing 21:33

3 years ago21:33

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Brooke is the Founder & CEO of Allobee, a managed marketplace, a one-stop business solution for small business owners and startups. She is a technical founder that took her tech skills and experience as a freelancer and business owner and merged them into her idea for Allobee. Brooke went to grad school and got a Master of Science degree in computer information systems, which helped her land a job at Postmates and assist their Southeast region launch. When Brooke became a mother, she realized fast-paced big tech and motherhood did not play well together. She recognized the need for a single place where women who are experts but wanted flexible work, could be connected with small business owners that need their specific skills and could find each other.…

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Just Enough Wine 27:57

3 years ago27:57

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Jessica Hershfield, an entrepreneur and the Founder of Just Enough Wines, is constantly growing and transforming her brand. She knows how important it is to stay competitive, regardless of the entrepreneur's industry. Before Just Enough Wines, Jess worked at some prominent tech companies - which has helped her through her entrepreneurial journey. The journey of building a successful brand requires commitment, self-drive, and the courage to go after your dreams despite all the obstacles you face. As a founder, Jessica mentions that you have to wear different hats and take on different responsibilities, especially as you start your business.…

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The Talent Startup Union 40:56

3 years ago40:56

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Your Bio-Tech Haircare 29:04

3 years ago29:04

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HairDays Founder & CEO Dr. Tiffany St. Bernard knew that there had to be a better way to care for her hair health. Leveraging her background as a Biomedical/Neural Engineer Researcher, she worked to craft a scientific method to analyze hair type, design personalized hair health strategies digitally, and take the trial and error out of hair and scalp care. In 2016 right before she planned to launch the HairDays diary, Tiffany was hospitalized in the ICU multiple times - initially triggered by Lemierre syndrome and followed by sepsis and pneumonia. After that experience, she went through several hair-related issues - including hair loss. Her journey has inspired her passion for helping others understand the holistic connection between health and hair. Website: https://myhairdays.com/…

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Creating Inclusive Workspaces 29:11

3 years ago29:11

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Daniel Dobson-Smith is the Founder and CEO of Soul Trained, an executive coaching and growth leadership training consultancy. He recently released his latest book, You Can Be Yourself Here: A Pocket Guide To Creating Inclusive Workspaces , using the psychology of belonging. Daniel takes us through the journey of writing his book and the importance of the power of belonging through the lens of psychology. Website: https://soultrained.com/…

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Fourth-Wave Feminism 26:57

3 years ago26:57

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Françoise Girard is the founder, and CEO of Feminism Makes Us Smarter. She is shining the light on incredible feminists around the world and making sure their work is lifted, elevated, and known. Françoise is an author, advocate, and expert on women’s health, human rights, sexuality, HIV and AIDS, and feminist movements. For over 20 years, she has advocated for women’s rights and gender justice in close partnership with feminist activists worldwide. Website: https://www.fmus.org/…

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Funding Strategy Hacks - Deborah Benton 29:00

4 years ago29:00

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Deborah is the Founder & General Partner at Willow Growth Partners. Willow provides early growth capital to entrepreneurs building the next generation of transformative consumer brands and the disruptive technologies that power them. In 2014, Deborah launched a family office investment vehicle focused on seed-stage consumer brands and enabling tech companies. Website: WillowGrowth.com…

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City Leadership Hacks - Valarie McCall 27:00

4 years ago27:00

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Valarie J. McCall is Chief of Communications, Government & International Affairs for the City of Cleveland. She is a sought-after speaker, panelist, political strategist, and legislative expert who has garnered countless accolades for her work. From around the globe to the neighborhoods of Cleveland, McCall lends her expertise to affect change and improve the quality of life for all people. Website: www.cleveland-oh.gov…

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Psychedelic Health Hacks - Jemie Sae Koo 25:00

4 years ago25:00

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Jemie is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Psychable, the #1 trusted and comprehensive online community dedicated to connecting those interested in legally exploring psychedelic-assisted therapy with practitioners who can support them. Psychable is now transitioning to a telehealth platform where they connect individuals to ketamine therapy. Website: www.psychable.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/PsychableDotCom…

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The Hacking of Art - Kimberly Brooks 31:00

4 years ago31:00

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Kimberly Brooks is a contemporary American artist and author of The New Oil Painting by Chronicle Books. A prolific painter known for her portraits and landscape series, Kimberly explores identity and memory in her work. As an Artist, Hacks take the form of developing your own creative process that works for you. Tapping into her own creativity is a process that she describes as starting with a Vision, having Hope, finally Diving In, and then is followed by a combination of emotions; Excitement, Doubt, Clarity, and Obsession, on the heels of which follows, Discipline, Faith and Resolution.…

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Hub Craft Hacks - Shivani Dallas 25:00

4 years ago25:00

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Shivani Dallas, a successful owner of a top-ranked mortgage company, has set her sights on the Cannabis startup world in Massachusetts. Hub Craft is a vertically integrated Cannabis company with several celebrity products launching this year. A successful salesperson with a strong strategic bent, Shivani values relationships, authenticity, and providing value in business. A strong network is the biggest hack any business person can leverage. It's a secret capital that greatly returns when you mix a history of authentic and value-driven transactions.…

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Your Best Life Hacks - Katharine McKee 28:00

4 years ago28:00

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Katharine McKee is the founder of Morphology Consulting, a digital commerce consultancy that uses algorithms to optimize a company’s GTM for exponential growth. Katharine’s own hacks that have fueled the growth of her business were driven by an acute self-awareness of what living your best life means. A fact many busy founders forget as their company drives their lives. Katharine feels goal setting plays a big factor in that and being clear on what KPIs and personas make sense for your business.…

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Portugal Startup Hacks - Filipa Carvalho 25:00

4 years ago25:00

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Filipa Carvalho is a Lisbon-based attorney and co-founder of Moss & Cooper, a consulting firm aimed at assisting startups by providing strategic and financial consulting to Portugal-based startups and as well as to those considering moving to Portugal. Filipa's top business hacks are the importance of building, nurturing, and connecting your network to clients to facilitate deal flow. Partnership building is another key hack she feels has a big impact on the growth of your company. Above all, however, she states that finding a balance between work and your social life is critical to maintaining a positive and productive mindset in business.…

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Cannabis Hacking - Kate Miller 26:00

4 years ago26:00

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Kate Miller’s career spanned bud-tending in College to developing entertainment company brand partnership deals before she set off to turn a side hustle into a full-time career as the founder of Miss Grass, a cannabis products platform for consumers. Kate’s bootstrapping hacks are inspired by her early days where brand partnership and affiliate marketing deal-making, accelerated growth, exposure, and reach.…

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Performance and Productivity - Wendy Ellin 26:00

4 years ago26:00

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Before launching her Workplace Productivity Consultancy, Wendy Ellin spent years in radio and writing her well-timed NY Times Best Seller, “Working From Home, How’s That Working For You?” pre-Covid. As her book details, Wendy has hundreds of work from home hacks to drive productivity, performance, and peace of mind. She shares those and her own secret hacks that have guided the success of her growing business and kept her sane and happy working from home.…

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Energy Management Hacks - Stephanie Lee 25:00

4 years ago25:00

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Stephanie Lee is the founder of SelfMade, a beauty brand for consumers committed to well-being. With products such as True Grit Resilience Scrub to combat scalp and Secure Attachment Serum to lower cortisol, the company is a great blend of high-grade beauty products and mental health boosters given its well-being mindset and positive intention mission. Stephanie’s secret founder hacks include energy management and mental health techniques to fuel her productivity.…

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The McGuire Method Hack - Allison McGuire 26:00

4 years ago26:00

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Actress, entrepreneur, and presentation coach to Fortune 500 companies, Allison McGuire successfully blends her many career tracks to fuel her current passion, coaching professionals and founders on applying acting skills and methods to elevate the business pitch drive the close. Founder of the McGuire Method, her biggest hacks utilize the power of manifestation, a prosperity mindset, and working smarter, not harder.…

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Marketing Hacks Made Simple - Lori Bonanni 26:00

4 years ago26:00

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Lori Bonanni is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Elssus, LLC, multi-disciplined communication consulting firm. Lori’s passion is to build and grow its reputation to increase its brand awareness, business results, and credibility. With a distinguished corporate marketing career that spanned Verizon, Universal, and other major companies, Lori has developed her own mix of startup marketing hacks to further her own business that leverages key resources and time management strategies.…

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The Win-Win Resource Hack - Margot Shapiro 28:00

4 years ago28:00

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Margot Shapiro is a Managing Director at Spiral Sun Ventures, a venture firm located in Southern California, which invests in early-stage CPG companies that promote a healthier lifestyle in the food, beverage, and personal care sectors. Margot’s other passion and the primary hack is mentoring college students. Her internship program at Spiral Sun Ventures has given students valuable experience with portfolio companies and provided great resources for the company.…

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Nutritional Hacks - Rachel Sanders 26:00

4 years ago26:00

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Rachel Soper Sanders is the CEO and co-founder of Rootine and has over 10 years of experience at the intersection of health and technology. Rachel’s commitment to health and nutrition has driven her career and passion for optimizing human performance. Balancing motherhood and work during the pandemic was challenging. Still, it inspired Rachel to perfect her own special hacks to ensure she remained productive, competitive, and on her game during her successful launch.…

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Save My Cents Hacks - Shang Saavedra 27:00

4 years ago27:00

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Shang Saavedra is a personal finance entrepreneur and influencer who successfully reached financial independence at age 31 by being strategically frugal, investing wisely, and diversifying her revenue streams. She accomplished this by relying on several life and professional hacks, from mastering a success mindset to capsule wardrobes, recipe-free eating, mastering side hustle revenue streams, and more.…

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Wine and COVID - Tawnya Falkner 27:00

4 years ago27:00

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Tawnya Falkner is the Founder & Proprietor of Le Grand Courtâge & Très Chic Rosé. Tawnya’s successful wine business supplied restaurants all over the US. Although the closing of many restaurants severely impacted Tawnya’s bottom-line, she was able to lean into critical bootstrapping strategies to survive and thrive during Covid. She has learned a great deal about the art of pivoting and the power of agility, but her key hack during downtimes was trusting her Founder DNA.…

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Systemize It - Jennifer Mercer 28:23

4 years ago28:23

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Serial entrepreneur, Jennifer Mercer, founded two software companies. She successfully exited one and is currently bootstrapping another. She is an operationally-focused CEO who strongly believes in establishing processes early on to ensure smooth operations and optimized efficiencies. Her key startup hacks are management and operations-focused. She believes it’s critical to build efficient systems and deep teams early to drive growth and scale.…

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Funding Hacks - Dana Loberg 28:00

4 years ago28:00

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Serial entrepreneur Dana Loberg has had a variety of startup experiences building and scaling companies. Her most recent venture is an AR company that released LEO AR, an AR mobile application. Dana has mastered a key bootstrapping funding hack—being an active fearless Accelerator participant. A strategic founder, Dana knows how to leverage the best of the startup ecosystem without falling prey to its many funding pitfalls. A hack strategy that few have mastered.…

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Mastering the Partnership Hack - Marissa Waldman 26:00

4 years ago26:00

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Marissa Waldman, the founder of Leaderology, leadership development and management consulting firm in Southern California, specializes in developing fearlessly authentic leadership. Marissa has wielded a powerful startup hack to fuel her customer acquisition pipeline—strategic partnerships. Her deep HR partnerships provide an endless supply of quality customer referrals because she and her team are committed to delivering value—the best hack of all.…

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Brand World Hacks - Willow Hill 26:00

4 years ago26:00

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Founder of Scoutlab, a creative agency dedicated to working with purpose-driven brands such as Venmo and Wix.com, Willow started her company right out of college and has not stopped pushing the envelope since. A disruptor by nature, Willow began her career with Red Bull and Airbnb while still in school and believed one of the best hacks founders should master is effectively working with their co-founders.…

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Value Driven Hacks - Beverly Beattie 26:00

4 years ago26:00

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From consultant to a small business owner to build a large business and then subsequently exiting, Beverly Beattie has experienced what all business owners dream of—real financial success. Along the way, she learned that all hacks are driven by delivering real value for your customer and going the extra mile.…

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Birds of a Feather Strategies - Priscilla McKinney 26:00

4 years ago26:00

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Priscilla McKinney has been innovating and leveraging efficiencies throughout her career. She has mastered the art of Startup Hacking by understanding the power of open-source resources and how to leverage them for your own business purpose. As well as how to use them to build your own services on top of them and save precious time and money while scaling.…

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ooHHo Hacks - Nicola Stephenson 27:00

4 years ago27:00

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Founder of “We are oHHo,” an organic CBD products company committed to curating all-natural CBD from the best organic, sustainable farms in the U.S. Products include oils, tinctures, and now gourmet gummies and teas. With her startup, Nicola applied her corporate experience and marketing acumen to the nascent CBD business world and found growth hacking was the key to her success.…

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Music Visionary - Rebecca Warfield 27:00

4 years ago27:00

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Rebecca Warfield has been breaking norms for years and has the gift of vision in music and startup land. As an entrepreneur, she has taken years of management experience managing music stars like Julian Lennon and Steven Tyler to guide startups to stardom and create her own ventures. Her hacks are not to be missed.…

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Data Science Innovator - Tanya Vucetic 26:00

4 years ago26:00

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Tanya Vucetic is a Data Scientist and the co-founder of Blockforms, a health care insurance startup. No stranger to a successful corporate career that took a left turn when an exciting opportunity presented itself, Tanya threw herself into the turbulent startup waters with two co-founders while holding down her full-time job. She learned the importance of time management and collaboration as her key hacks on the high stake’s entrepreneurial river.…

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Blockchain Startup Hacks - Alexia Hefti 26:00

4 years ago26:00

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Alexia Hefti’s blockchain interests started at Deloitte but quickly took off and fueled her entrepreneurial spirit. Founder of eGovern, Alexia bootstrapped her startup from day one and learned the art of cross time zone startup hacks to drive e-government business and innovative blockchain application deals from Hong Kong to Dubai to Canada, all while juggling her family and new baby.…

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The Latinx Career Builder - Andrea Guendelman 26:00

4 years ago26:00

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Andrea Guendelman, a Harvard and MIT graduate, is a leading force in creating platforms for minority professionals in the tech industry. Founder of BeVisible (the first career social media platform for Latinx) and Wallbreaker, a thought leader on Latinx career building. Andrea’s startup hacks have been well-honed by her working in a variety of industries around the world.…

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The Potentialist Hacks - Joanna Bloor 25:00

4 years ago25:00

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While Joanna Bloor’s senior corporate experience at companies like Pandora, Open Table, and Ticket Master sharpened her skills in management, revenue generation, tech, and e-commerce, it was her “adventure” as a potential thought leader—helping clients uncover and give language to their unique, personal “value proposition”—that allowed her to develop an arsenal of startup hacks that fueled her business.…

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Celebrity Marketer Hacks - Kristi Kaylor 26:00

5 years ago26:00

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Kristi Kaylor is known for her innovative marketing strategies in the celebrity and influencer world, having worked with top talent such as Jennifer Aniston. She has made it her business to help many celebrities develop, launch, and market their own startups and has used that experience to develop her secret sauce of startup and marketing hacks that get companies off the ground, in the press, and of course, in the black!…

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Game Changing Hacks - Liz Heller 25:00

5 years ago25:00

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Entrepreneur Liz Heller is no stranger to the hustle, both on the corporate and startup side. Liz’s trailblazing career in music, media, consumer products, films, and TOMS has afforded her ample opportunities to hone her growth hacking and startup hacking skills, including her favorite time-saving software favorites, time-management tricks, and self-care tune-ups, and of course, the secret sauce. Tune-in, to learn from the best.…

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The Smart Hacks - Katica Roy 27:00

5 years ago27:00

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Katica Roy is a gender economist and the CEO of Pipeline, an award-winning SaaS company that leverages artificial intelligence to identify and drive economic gains through gender equity. Please tune in to listen, as Katica shares a variety of sophisticated and smart production, content, and work-related hacks that she developed over the years, which saved her time, money and gave her a competitive edge as she built her successful AI business and her pre-eminent thought leadership in gender economics.…

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Who Needs Code - Fernanda Dobal 25:00

5 years ago25:00

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Fernanda Dobal is a Brazilian born ed-tech entrepreneur focused on helping women during menopause make educational and wholistic choices during this important stage in a woman’s life. A firm believer in bringing different fields of design together as a tool and methodology, Fernanda shares how she bootstrapped her tech during the prototype phase to save time and money.…

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Just GoogleIt Free - Ada Chen 26:00

5 years ago26:00

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Ada Chen’s young journey took many turns from investment banking to Silicon Valley as a marketing executive at several tech startups. Reassessing her career, Ada realized many small business owners had no idea how to market their services and products in the new digital age. Hence, the Cultivate Method was born. While bootstrapping, she discovered Google is the best cost-saving resource. “Google the word “free” in front of any service that you need to buy, and you just extended runway.…

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DIY Scales - Jasmine Foroutan 26:00

5 years ago26:00

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Jasmine Foroutan knows the inside track. She worked for hand in hand with Angel investors for several years and saw first-hand what drove them to respond positively to a pitch deck and startup. Jasmine launched Pitch Genius to leverage that knowledge and now helps founders craft those killer decks and their stories! Learn how she bootstrapped and then scaled her business to meet the needs of some of the hottest founders in Silicon Beach and Valley.…

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Leverage Your Strengths - Erin Halpler 25:00

5 years ago25:00

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In this episode, Erin Halper shares her journey from private equity to consulting and launching her now consulting accelerator to help others scale their consultancies. Erin discovered that many consultants lacked the tools and resources to scale their businesses and services. A strong believer in leveraging your strengths and investing in areas where you are weakest, Erin’s honest assessment of herself fueled her successful launch strategy.…

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The Well Traveled Go Places - Samantha Patil 26:00

5 years ago26:00